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A Look Back at 22 Years of Groundwork Service
Above: Protector of the planet, inspirer of people, friend to all dogs, Jim Lively. When I joined the Michigan Land Use Institute in 2000, it was an upstart, brash group of journalists making waves with government officials and developers by wielding incisive writing...
8 New Videos Celebrate Farm to School in Michigan!
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) just launched seven farm to school videos highlighting important aspects of farm to school programming in Michigan. The videos include interviews with a wide variety of farm to school champions and stakeholders from across...
Michigan’s Fork-in-the-Road Climate Moment
This commentary first published in Crain's Detroit Business, March 16, 2022 A day will come when Michigan and the entire United States must make sweeping and dramatic changes to combat global warming. We can say that with certainty because, as a vast body of climate...